List of modern music composers for kids

from the MMF Music Library

Learn about famous composers with a biography for kids highlighting the composer's composer's life, music and culture. Then check out our related resources for music students, private lesson teachers, elementary music classroom teachers and homeschooling teachers.

Famous Composer Biographies for Students, Music Teachers and Homeschool Teachers

Baroque Era Composers (1600-1750)

Hey Kids, Meet Johann Sebastian Bach | Biography
Hey Kids, Meet George Frideric Handel | Biography
Hey Kids, Meet Johann Pachelbel | Biography
Hey Kids, Meet Barbara Strozzi | Biography
Hey Kids, Meet Antonio Vivaldi | Biography

Classic Era Composers (1750-1820)

Hey Kids, Meet Ludwig van Beethoven | Biography
Hey Kids, Meet Franz Joseph Haydn | Biography
Hey Kids, Meet Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Biography

Romantic Era Composers (1820-1910)

Hey Kids, Meet Johannes Brahms | Biography
Hey Kids, Meet Cécile Chaminade | Biography
Hey Kids, Meet Frederic Chopin | Biography
Hey Kids, Meet Antonin Dvorak | Biography
Hey Kids, Meet Edvard Grieg | Biography
Hey Kids, Meet Modest Mussorgsky | Biography
Hey Kids, Meet Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | Biography
Hey Kids, Meet Gioachino Antonio R

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Modern

There are no rules!

Modern classical music is about breaking rules. It’s about being different. Whatever you think music should sound like, I am sure there is some modern classical music that doesn’t sound like that at all!!

Do you think music should have a tune? Well there is lots of modern classical music that doesn’t have a tune.

Do you think music should be played on a music instrument? Well there is lots of modern classical music that is played on things that aren’t very ‘musical’ at all! Watch this video to see a piece of music written for a typewriter (this is what people used to type on before computers were around)!

‘The Typewriter’ by Leroy Anderson

And I guess everyone thinks music should at least make some sort of sound. Well there is actually a real piece of music that makes no sound at all!!! It is called 4’33. This is because it is four minutes and thirty-three seconds of silence! If you don’t believe me, watch this video! (Maybe I should try this one at a school assembly sometime!!)

Many people say the first piece of modern music was Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune(Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun) by Claude Debussy (see the Debussy page for a video of pa

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Composers For Kids

• Composers' Letters

• By: Ludwig advance guard Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Music
• Narrated by: Jeremy Nicholas, Justice Philpott, Prince de Souza
• Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
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• Offspring J. Grablowski on 09-02-18